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Leners Patent No. 68,011, @zaad August 20. 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN FRUIT-STEM GUTTER.

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TO. ALL PERSONS TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS MAY COME:

Be it'known that we, ALBERT STRONG and JOSEPH Af DADMUN, of South Boston, of the county of Suffolk, `and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new' and usefulv Fruit-Stem Cutter; and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specication, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- I v Figure 1 is a plan,

Figure 2 a front elevation, and

Figure 3 au end view of it; i

The object of our invention is to enable a person While engaged in `gathering grapes or various other fruits to readily sever. the stem from the vine or tree while the bunch or fruitv may be held in the hand, the said cutting of the stem being eiected by the force ot'the hand which maybe hold'of the bunch or fruit. To this end and to advantage, two of our said stem cutters may be employed by a person at once, one being placed on'thel foreiinger of each of his hands. t

In the drawings, A denotes a blade in shape resembling that of a penknife, it being fastened to a. tube, B,

to encompass and t tothe foreiinger, between its second and third joints, so as to leavethe end part and first joint of the finger free to play or move and be used as may be required; The' tube we make with a'notch or recess, a, formed in one side of it, and at its base or larger end, in manner as represented. This notch, while the Stem-cutter is being used, rests on the lower part of th'e finger saddlewise, or receives the esh of the finger so as to prevent the cutter from turning or revolving on the finger under the pressure exerted on it by the knife.

With this little implement a gardener will find his work of gathering grapes or various other kinds of fruit greatly facilitated, as it `enables abunch to be seizedV and separated by one hand alone when provided with the implement. We are aware that it is not new to aii'ix a knife to a sewing-thimble. vAlso, that it is not new to x a cutter to a COmmOninger-I'ng, the same to be used for severing a thread extending from an articlegor for cutting twine used in binding a bundle. Therefore we do not claim such.

Our said fruit-stem cutter, constructed substantially in manner as represented, and to he used as described,

viz, of the blade and' tube, connected and arranged asset forth, and the notch formed in the latter, the whole being as and for the purpose specified.

ALBERT STRONG,

JOSEPH A. DADMUN.

Witnesses:

B.. H. EDDY, F. P.' HALE, Jr. 

